Tag: fifth part
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Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach * (1988, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, George Gaynes, Matt McCoy) – Classic Movie Review 8339
Director Alan Myerson’s painful 1988 comedy Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach again stars George Gaynes as Commandant Eric Lassard, who goes to Miami to pick up an award (not an Academy Award!) from the Mayor of Miami (James Hampton), and his arch-enemy Captain Harris (G W Bailey) tries to put his spoke in the…
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Transformers: The Last Knight ** (2017, Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock) – Movie Review
So here we go on the fifth part of the long-running kids’ action adventure saga, based on the Hasbro toys. That idea might excite some kids but it fills a lot of grown-ups with dread. Actually, it is more the second part, the sequel to the 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction reboot, following the cruel, swingeing cull of the original cast.…
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Jason Bourne **** (2016, Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed) – Movie Review
Great to have Matt Damon back for the fourth time as Bourne. Great to have Paul Greengrass back in the director’s chair! Great action! It’s a huge pleasure as well as relief that Jason Bourne (2016) is so much better than the rogue fourth movie, The Bourne Legacy (2012). As a movie, though, Jason Bourne ends up good…
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed *** (1969, Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward, Freddie Jones, George Pravda, Maxine Audley, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 2772
Director Terence Fisher’s 1969 Hammer Films horror movie sequel Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed brings back Peter Cushing as the bad and depraved Baron Frankenstein, who is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Baron Frankenstein arrives in a town to meet Dr Brandt (George Pravda) to collaborate with him but finds he lost his mind and is…
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ***** (2015, Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Simon McBurney, Tom Hollander) – Movie Review
Cruise is back in control thanks to McQuarrie. It’s the best yet. M:I 5, or M:I – RN, is a super surprise – it’s incredibly slick, smart and stylish, with writer-director Christopher McQuarrie revivifying the formula big time. It’s a Bond film, without 007. It’s four years since Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) successfully…